The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.